Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 205, 24 August 1907 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXII. NO. 20.. E CHARACTER OF PROGRAM AUGUR WELL One Day of the Richmond . Chautauqua Indicates That This Is to Be a Most Profitable Year in This Work. AN AUDIENCE OF 1,200 ATTENDED FRIDAY NIGHT Dr. Kirtley Spoke on "Yellow- ; stone Park" Athletic Contests One of the Features Buchtel Speaks Sunday. PROGRAM. Saturday Night. 7:30 Concert, Temple Male Quartet. ' 8:00 Porular Lecture, "In the Barefoot Kingdom." Dr. Jas. S. Kirtley. Sunday. 9:30 Sunday School Adults, Auditorium Tent. Lesson by Mr. T. J. Addleman, President Wayne County Sunday School Association. Primary department, Children's tent. Lesson by Miss Anri-i M. Schultz, Primary Superintendent St. Paul's Lutheran school. 10:30 Sermon, "Unsuspected Virtues," Dr. Jas. S. Kirtley. 2:00 Address, Gov. Henry Buchtel, Preacher-Governor of Colorado. 4:00 Sacred Concert, Musicians Union Band, City. 7:00 Vespers. 7: 30 A Stereopticon Lecture, "Journeying to Jerusalem to Sunday School," James II. Shaw. 8:30 Sacred Concert Temple Male Quartet. One day of the Richmond Chautauqua's fifth session has passed and though the weather has not been at &11 satisfactory the enthusiasm of the patrons and the character of the program already given forecast a most profitable year. At the lecture Friday night by Dr. Jas. S. Kirtley, pastor of the First Uaptist church at Elgin, 111., there was an attendance of 1200 and all thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Dr. Kirtley discoursed on "Yellowstone Park" through which he journeyed last year. The lecture was splendidly illustrated with 120 lantern slides in gorgeous colors. The pictures were the finest ever displayed In Richmond. Dr. Kirtley's leading paragraph which gives a general Idea of the lecture follows: "If you wish to get into the midst fit the histories and traditions and institutions and civilization of the centuries you should visit European and Oriental countries. But if you wish to see nature's wonders and gloriesand beauties and sublimities they are -waiting for you out west; for the world's scenic attractions, bulk larger and assume more extraordinary form in the United States and Canada, beginning with the Rockies and going West than in any other part of the world. Among the wonders of that u-nnrtprland. those that are to be found in Yellowstone Park easily out Tank all others. If you want to see geysers there are only three places where they can be found in Iceland where there are three principal geysers and several insignificant ones; in New Zealand where there are a few small geysers; In Yellowstone Park .where there are a hundred geysers of all sizes and shapes, histories and habits. There are four thousand riot springs of all sizes and shapes, colors and constituencies, histories and habits. There are thirty five lakes, ranging from the lakelet to the Yellowstone lake which is the largest lake at that elevation in the world, except one. being 7.741 feet above the level of the sea and having a shore line of 100 miles. There is a canyon, the Grand canyon of the Yellowstone which for the blending of the beautiful and the majestic and for the variety of elements, which nature has assembled to build and beautify a canyon tns not its equal on the face of the enrt'-i. There are petrified forests, eleven of them, separated in upace by volcanic cement and periods of growth by long geological ages. FIELD MEET IS HELD. ft Was the Feature of Children's Day! at the Chautauqua. This was children's flay and th ttle folk swarmed the grounds this morning. Particular interest attached to t'.ie field meet under the direction of Prof. X. C. Heironemus and Prof. Orville Branson. There were many contestants and a host of spectators. The events were divided into two classes the Juniors '-anting in ages under 12 and the seniors from 12 to 1C years. The winners and the prizes follow: . Juniors. Potato race First Henry Sittloh, (Continued on Page Three.).

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HENRY A. BUCHTEL, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO.

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Governor Buchtel, who was formerly pastor of Grace Methodist church, Richmond, will deliver an address before the Chautauqua at 2 p. m., Sunday. find"running the state of Colorado from the governor's office just like conducting a prayer meeting," said Mr. Buchtel at Indianapolis, Friday. He was inaugurated governor of Colorado in January. "They know me in Colorado." said the Governor. "They know that I am a minister by profession, and there is not a man in Colorado would enter my office to make a dishonorable proposal. It is no harder work than it used to be to conduct a prayer meeting." "The things that you as a minister would have done in the governor's place, do you find it possible to do .as governor?" The Governor laughed. "No, it is WILLTURHROOTOUT RESTOREDTO HEALTH Secretary of State Has Been Building Up at William Muldoon's Farm. IS VISITED BY ROOSEVELT. WAS SUFFERING FROM NERVOUS COLLAPSE NOW HE BOXES AND PUNCHES BAG AND TAKES LONG RIDES. New York, Aug. 24 Secretary of State Elihu Root, who has already spent three weeks at the farm sanitariumof William C. Muldoon, ex-champion wrestler, near White Plains, taking athletic treatment for nervous exhaustion, expects to complete his cure in two weeks more. He is now well on the road to recovery and all reason for apprehension about - his . health seems to have disappeared. On the quiet farm among the Westchester Hills, so secluded that the secretary of state was enabled to pass three weeks there and be visited by the president of the United States before his whereabouts became known, Mr. Root has gained weight, put on a coat of tan, lost the drawn, worried look of the early summer, and will go back to Washington, as Muldoon phrases it, "the strongest member of the cabinet, not even barring Taft." During the first two weeks of his stay he gained a pound a day, acquiring therewith such a stock -of energy that he was able to ride 18 miles, walk three miles, exercise with the big medicine ball and box fifteen vigorous minutes with Muldoon. VISITORS FROM CAMBRIDGE CITY. About thirty people from Cambridge City attended the Eagles' carnival Thursday evening and were highly pleased with the attractions.

SOIVIE BIGELOWISMS

Our two greatest enemies ar- The cunning of the few and the stupidity of the many. 1 . Many are mentally lazy and mistake this for conservatism and loyalty to old ideas. Of all those who helped to change the false idea In regard to slavery. Garrison was the greatest to my mind, and in saying this I do not lack appreciation for the others. Dare to serve a cause, even If alone In your stand. You may buy a common council, you may buy a state legislature you may buy a state executive, but you cannot buy the American pie. A Swiss once said to me, "The difference between America and Switzerland Is, that you send men to the United States senate that we would send, to jail." . , ; The greatest purpose of the initiative and the referendum is to resent the arrogant corporations.

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not always possible. It is not my place, you know, to give matters my personal attention. I do not follow the drunkard about or close saloons If the laws are not adequate for the doing of such things by order it is my place to see that such laws are passed if it is possible. A governor or a mm ister must be guided by the law." "Do you find a man's outlook upon life as a minister is any changed when he becomes Governor?" "Not a whit. There is the same right and wrong, and both are to be met with the same consideration. "People are the same in America, from Maryland to California, all open hearted, cordial, busy and optimistic The pessimist, if you meet him, is. gen erally off in the corner somewnere reading Bryan on 'Government Ownership of Railroads.' You don't find them in the open, where the sunshine will strike them." FIVE PERSONS PERISH IN ft FIRE AT Tenement Block Destroyed at An Early Hour. AFFAIR IS MYSTERIOUS. Boston, Aug. 24 Five persons lost their lives and two others are dying in a hospital as the result of a mysterious midnight fire in the tenement block at 449 Norfolk street, Somerville, this morning. The dead and dying are members of Martin Cooper's family, his wife, three children and brother-in-law, while he and his fourth child are in a critical condition. The dead range from 65 to 2 years of age. Jacob Goldman and Mrs. Patrick Murphy were rescued. SUBSIDY IS SECURED FOR C, C, & L ROAD Committee Has Practically Completed Its Work. WEBSTER IS THE WINNER. Webster, Ind., Aug. 24 The com mittee having in charge the matter of securing $1,000 for a subsidy for the C. C. & L. railroad have practically completed its work. James Unthank has collected nearly all that was sub scribed and there is little else to do. There is little question that in less than six months Webster will be on the map, the first time in its history, . Farmers anticipate great conveni ences as a result of the stopping of freight and passenger trains here. The lone hauls of erain. live stock and pro duce for the markets will be rendered unnecessary, saving time and money in a vear greater than required by the road for the concession about to be secured.

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FOB M Frank Samuelson, Richmond, Searching for His Brother, Edward. GONE MORE THAN 2 YEARS. CIRCULARS WILL BE PRINTED DESCRIBING THE YOUNG MAN AND THEY WILL BE SENT BROADCAST. Frank Samuelson of this city is searching for his brother Ldward Samuelson. who has been missing for the nast two years. Mr. Samuolson appeared at police headquarters this morning and asked Chief Bailey to as sist in his search for his lost brother. Circulars will be printed describing the young man and these circulars will be distributed broadcast through out the country. Frank Samuelson stated that his mother is worrying herself over the continued absence of tjie prodigal son, who was last heard of two years ago. "Whether he is dead or a.ive is a case of much anxiety to Mrs. Samuelson. who wants her son Edward, if he is still alive, to be with her the remaining years of her life. At police headquarters this morning Mr. Samuelson stated that his brother over two years ago had had a violent quarrel with his father, with whom he was never able to get along and that the young man had left his home with a vow never to return. Since then the father has died. Frank Samuelson is of the opinion that his brother Edward does not know of his father's death and he informed Chief Bailey that he thought if Edward knew his father was dead he would consent to return home again. Has Wandering Habit. Frank Samuelson states that his brother i3 a victim of the wandering habit and that he has been told that Edward since leaving home has spent most of his time traveling about the country with circus, theatrical and other amusement companies. Mr. Samuelson thinks that his brother makes his headquarters in Chicago and he asked Chief Bailey to request the Chicago police to make a thorough search for the young man in that city. He will also advertise in some of the Chicago papers hoping against lope that his brother will read the adver tisement. As the police departments in all the principal cities and towns in this part of the country will soon nave a complete discription of the missing young man it is quite probable that he will be located in the event that he is still alive. CUT WIFE'S THROAT FROM EAR TO EAR Atrocious Crime Committed at Crawfordsville by Otto Walker, Aged 33. USED HIS POCKET KNIFE. THEN, FLEEING FROM THE SCENE OF MURDER, SLASHED AT HIS OWN THROAT, BUT WAS UN SUCCESSFUL. Crawfordsville. Ind.. Aug. 24. One of the most atrocious murders ever committed within the confines of Montgomery county occurred Friday when Otto Walker, 33, an employe of the Indiana Match company, murdered his wife. Laura Walker, in cold blood, cutting her throat from eat to ear with a pocket knife. After killing his wife Walker then went running toward the home of his parents, slashing at his own throat, inflicting a dangerous wound. Walker and his wife has been in the nublic eve for some time on account of family troubles, and several times Mrs. Walker had left her husband, onlv to return at his persuasion. About two months ago she left home the last time and applied for a divor ce.- For several days Walker nas been importuning his wife to with draw her suit and return to him. Today he made another visit to her home with the same request, to which she flatly refused, and the tragedy follow ed. RUSH THE CONSTRUCTION Cars to Run from New Castle To Indianapolis. N'ew Castle. Ind.. Aug. 24. Twenty Mr loads of steel rails for the India.olis, New Castle & Toledo electric cap' which recently arrived here and .inard, are now being distributed ti e right of way. At Kennard a of men is laying the steel and at ale : fore the track is rapidly being completed toward this city. Indications are "that cars will be running between this city and Indianapolis bl Decl.

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How The Vote Stands

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Anthony Hafner Sylvester Hamilton Nathan Mills Walter Anderson (Fountain City).. Leo Medearis Leo King Fred Palmer (Williamsburg) Alvin A. Keller Henry Schneider Russell Brehm Geo. Weller (R. R. No. 1) Chauncey Eurr Earl Miller Carol Adams Howard Hartzler Robert McDaniel Noel Matthews Elmer Colvin Elmer Piehe Fred Ward (Lynn) Harry P. Thomas (Cambridge City). Francis Brooke (Greensfork) Ralph Gault Teter Lichtenfels

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Mary Morrow Mary E. Harmeier Ellen Dickinson Irene Crull (Greensfork) Pearl Rothermal Doris Monroe REID AIIO FRIENDS GIVE OP THE ALTON It Has Been Turned Over to Edwin Hawley, Head Of the Clover Leaf. PART OF A BIG SYSTEM. DEAL WAS MADE UNDER ONE CONDITION AND THAT IS THAT THE ALTON IS NOT FINED FOR REBATING. New York, Aug. 24. Edwin Hawley has at last completed a railway sys tem that he started out ten years ago to build. The last link was secured Friday when the control of tha Chicago & Alton was turned over to him and his friends by D. G. Reid and others of the Rock Island. The sale is nominally to the Clover Leaf. Hawley owns the Clover Leaf and will become president of the new company. The new system will be composed of the Clover Leaf, the Alton, the Towa Central and the Minneapolis & St. Louis. It can be put together without violating any law, as the roads are not parallel or competing ones. Completes a Big System. The Clover Leaf has 431 miles of road, the Alton 915 miles, the Minne apolis & St. Louis 919 miles and the Iowa Central 569. This gives the new system nearly 3,000 miles of track. A few links are to be built connecting the roads. The first construction to be built will be seven miles connecting the Clover Leaf and Alton. The new system will be able to make connections with all the great railroad systems of the country. This deal with the Alton is made under one condition that the road is not fined by the government for rebating. This deal is a long step towards peace in the railroad world. President Shonts will probably- devote all his time to the local traction system. With Mr. Hawley in this deal are Thomas II. Hubbard and Henry E. Huntington. They represent all that is left of the old Collis Huntington party in the west. KEETHLER ACQUITTED IN THECITV COURT Charge of Assault and Battery Did Not Hold. RAISED HAMMER; NO BLOW. Robert Keethler, charged with assault and battery on Henry Haager, was acquitted this morning in the city court Itaager testified that after he had had an argument with Keethler in the old carriage shop on South Sixth street, and had offered to bet Keethler that he had a bank account of $200, Keethler called him a vile name and hit him in the head with a hammer. Samuel Lott. who works in the shop testified that he heard Keethler call Haager a vile name, but that he did not see a blow struck as he had his back to the principals in the affair. He stated that he did not hear the blow or hear Haager make an outcry- All he saw was Haager walking out of the shop a few minutes after Keethler had cursed him. Keethler testified that he raised a hammer against Haager but that he did not strike him. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA AND OHIO Fair Sunday; fresh west winds.

In Pony-Cart Contest 431 .784 000 .10 . 9 .092 002 129 ,61S .595 07 S 554 607 ,040 ,033 27S 114 110 74 60 21 19 10 7 C 5 --.-J5,329 3,064 DOTY IS VICTIM OF PRACTICAL JOKER! Hastens to Richmond to Serve Personal Notice on the County Clerk. FIRST WROTE A LETTER. YOUNG MAN WHO IS TO WED MISS BLANCHE HALE, FINDS THAT HE HAS A SCORE TO SET TLE WITH FRIENDS. Ernest Doty, of Indianapolts, a form er well known Milton young man, was the victim Frldav of a Dractical ioke on the nart of his associates in the firm with which Mr. Doty is now connected. Mr. Doty is engaged to be married to Miss Blanch Halo of Milton and he wedding date has been set for September 2. Thereby hangs a tale and an interesting one, too. When Dotv snrune the glad news on his fellow employes at Indianapolis a few days ago they all congratulated him. One of the number, however, al so consoled with him. "Why. Ernest, you won't be able to get married on September 2." said this friend, as he tipped a wink to the other men in tne office. "Why not?" asked Doty, thoroughly alarmed. "For this reason." replied the friend "When you left old Wayne county you forfeited your citizenship in mat county. Now under an act passed by the last legislature if a bride-to-iw lives in one county and the prospective bridegroom lives In another, he must notify the clerk of the county in which the prospective bride resides thirty days prior to the date of the marriage that he Intends to take out application papers for a marriage license." Notified the Clerk. "That s right," chimed in the other jokers. Poor Doty was at his wit's end. He had not notified Clerk Penny of the Wayne circuit court. So that the wedding day would not have to be postponed any later than the latter part of September he sat down and wrote to Mr. Penny of his intentions to wed Miss Hale of. Milton. He sent the communication by special delivery. Doty's tormentors were not yet through with the sport of goading their love lorn victim, so when they heard he had written to Mr. Penny notifying him of his intentions to marry Miss Hale they came to him with long faces and informed him that notification of marriage had to be made to the clerk in person. Completely distracted, young Doty boarded an interurban car in Indianapolis Friday morning and arrived here at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. He went at once to the court house and was waited on by Miss Ada Peel, deputy clerk. He related the strange tale that his fellow employes had told him at the conclusion of which Miss Peel laughed heartily cruelly, pertrht. She then inliA 13 xjy"-j formed him that he had been the victim of a practical Joke, and after giving him his application papers, Miss Peel Informed Mr. Doty that he could i. n Kntember 2, providing LKJ Ilioi n . . the application papers were returned in time for him to secure a license. Doty returned immediately to Indianapolis. MILES GETS PLACE III FORT WMK SCHOOLS Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Miles of South Bend, will remove to Ft. Wayne, Ind.. in a few days. Mr. Miles has resigned as principal of schools to accept a more lucrative position in the Ft. Wayne schools. Mr. and Mrs. Miles are well known here. Mrs. Miles is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. S. Wilson of South, Fourteenth street. '

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VERDICT PROBABLE BY MONDAY IN THE RECESUCCIDEIIT kroner Bramkamp Is Looking Thoroughly Into the Catastrophe on the Pennsylvania Near Hagerstown. SOME RAILROADERS SAY DEETER WAS AT FAULT Also Claimed Engineer Calkins Should Not Have Been Running at Such Rapid RateInjured Recovering. Coroner Bramkamp Is notf ffrnrTurting a thorough inveHtigaf ion to ascertain where the blame should bo placed for the Hagerstown wreck Wednesday night, and according to bU statement this morning, will file a verdict by Monday at the latest. He has examined all the men both on t ho .wreck ing train as well as those connected with the local freight train No. 72. Ray Deeter, operator at Hagerstown, and the operator at Mlllville hava al so been examined. Coroner Bram kamp will say nothing as to what the probable contents vt his verJlct w:ll be. The railroad officials too. are still further Investigating tie wieck nnd will probably reach a decision r.lthia the course of the next few days. The nwatnr nt MiMvllin h'm lirrti cleared of any complicity In tho wreck by the statements ot wrecking crew members. One of the Injured men stated today that ths opeiafor at Mill-1 ville had received his orders from Hagerstown, that the track was clear and to r.end the wreck train ahead, that the local freight in front of It would bo sidetracked. Tli3 oierator at HagorMown released th? block to the wreck train, stating that thero waa nothing In front, he says. The Injured men say that Ray Deeter tho operator at Hagerstown, is to blame for the accident on tho ground thathe should not. after having released the block both oat and west of Hagerstown, allowed 1nf freight tram to leave the switch at Hagerstown, when he well knew that tho wrecking train, pulled by a passenger engine hauling on'v four cars could reac:i Hagerstown within toe course of a few mlnutee. Wae It Red or White? It Is understood that l)eter gave the white light on the il ck signal tower to the local freight, and did not change this until he heard the wrel.ing train coming. Tho wrecking crew states that the block signal at Hfcgerstown is not dlscernable until after trains turn tho curve almost nt the bottom of tho long grade fron Mlilvlile and therefore the block system they state is defective nt tM? place. Engineer Calkins and his fireman, Morris Showalter, are confident that the white light was still burning :hcn they reached the block although Deeter asserts that he changed It to red, when he heard the train approaching. Owing to the rapid rate of sjKed at which the train was going, all wrecking crew trainmen declaring it to be running at sixty miles in hour, the train reached the block a few seconds after it was heard coining. Whether Deeter had the red or whita light burning. It Is asserted by the railroad men that he was negligent In not turning the light sooner than tis did,' when he probably knew thi the wrecking train waa bearing down on Hagerstown at a terrific rate of speed, having given it orders that the Uack was clear. Calkins Is Censured. It Is a-so asserted that Engineer Calkins is to blame to a considerable extent, as he should not have been running his train more than forty miles an hour through Hagerstowii, one of the Pennsylvania train rules specifically stating that this pecl shall be the maximum. The double enrve. which has caused several wrecks, probably the most serious being several years ago when No. 18 went into the ditch, killing three people, is known among Richmond division railroaders as the "Dead Men's Curve" and for this reason train orders are issued against fast running in and around Hagerstown. This order, however, has been but little obeyed since it was issued, engineers ami conductors sending their trains through Hagerstown as fast as they cared to. All the Injured men are doing very well. W. B. Owens of 32 North Tenth street, is still in a serious condition. He is so badly bruised about the chest and shoulders that he is required to keep his bed or chair during the entire time. Moving about is out of the question. His head is badly cut. His body is almost black, caused from the bruises he received in the smashup. Engineer Calkins and Fireman Showalter, who are confined at Reid Hospital are slowly recovering from the effects of the wreck. All other mem(Continued on Page Three.)